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I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

Robert A. Heinlein
Thinking, Police, Citizens
"The Past Through Tomorrow" by Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 401), 1967.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

Robert A. Heinlein
Fighting, Police, Stronger
Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

Robert A. Heinlein
Police, Christ, Stranger In A Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.346, Penguin

I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.

Robert A. Heinlein
Government, Sick, Police
"The Robert Heinlein Interview, and other Heinleiniana". Book by J. Neil Schulman, 1990.

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